Who has been the oldest British Monarch to still be on the throne?!
Question: that will stump a few people!
Answers: that will stump a few people!
Unless I'm reading this wrong, didn't Queen Elizabeth II reach that milestone today?
qe2
Queen Elizabeth II
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustrali...
The current Queen Elizabeth. She passes up Queen Victoria on her birthday this year.
Queen Elizabeth and she will surpass Queen Victoria in 2015 for the longest to hold that throne
That would be Queen Elizabeth II.
That'll stump EVERYBODY.
Except anybody in Great Britain who has watched the News.
Queen Victoria, QE2's great-great-grandmother, I believe the article said, was longest-reigining British monarch. She was on the throne for 63 years. QE2 would pass that if she's still reigning in 2015.
It's Elizabeth II.
The wording of your question makes it so that the sitting British monarch would always be the correct answer. The "still be on the throne" clause requires that it be the sitting monarch. If Charles became King tomorrow, he would be the oldest British monarch to still be on the throne.
If you weren't trying to make it into a syntactic brain-teaser, then maybe you were asking who was the sitting British monarch who reigned at the oldest age. As of today, I believe that is also Elizabeth II.